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Oct. 15, 1990: Critics' Voices
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
Oct. 15, 1990 High Anxiety
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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CRITICS' VOICES, Page 24
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<p> THEATER
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<p> THE PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD. How near in time, and how
far in world view, is the village life portrayed in J.M.
Synge's masterpiece about ignorant peasants and their perverse
notions of heroism, all of it a sly satire on the yearning of
oppressed colonies to break free. The finest Irish drama of the
20th century, it is discerningly performed by the Abbey Theater
of Dublin, at Washington's Kennedy Center through Oct. 21, then
in St. Louis, Tucson and Ann Arbor, Mich.
</p>
<p> BUDDY. The London hit, based on the ordinary life and
surefire songs of short-lived rock genius Buddy Holly, plays
at San Francisco's Golden Gate Theater through Oct. 14, prior
to Broadway, with an American, Paul Hipp, reprising his West
End title role.
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<p> ENDANGERED SPECIES. In The Garden of Earthly Delights and
subsequent pieces, Martha Clarke has proved herself the most
original and visually imaginative director working the fertile
border between dance and drama. Her new work, inspired by the
environmental debate, debuts at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Through Nov. 4.
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<p> ART
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<p> AN UNCERTAIN GRACE: THE PHOTOGRAPHS OF SEBASTIAO SALGADO,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The first U.S. exhibition
for the Brazilian-born Salgado, a onetime economist who took
up photography to document life in developing nations. Whether
in a Peruvian village, an open-pit gold mine in Brazil or a
refugee camp in Ethiopia, Salgado sees not just hardship,
though he sees a great deal of that, but also the immemorial
underpinnings of life--tradition, community and work--that
give suffering a meaning. Through Dec 2.
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<p> CHILDE HASSAM: AN ISLAND GARDEN REVISITED, National Museum
of American Art, Washington. The islands are the Isles of
Shoals, off the New Hampshire coast, and the garden was the
notable cultivation of journalist-poet Celia Thaxter. Both are
memorably captured here by Hassam (1859-1935), America's
foremost impressionist. Through Jan. 6.
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<p> TELEVISION
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<p> NIXON (PBS, Oct. 15, 8 p.m. on most stations). A rich
selection of old news clips, plus fresh comments from such
former aides as John Ehrlichman and Charles Colson, make this
three-hour American Experience documentary on the
ex-President's life worth an evening.
</p>
<p> VOICE OF THE PLANET (TBS, Oct. 15-19, 8:05 p.m. EDT).
William Shatner plays an author who talks with the spirit of
Earth (the voice of Faye Dunaway) about the planet's ecological
problems. Ted Turner's environmental passion takes an odd
mystical turn in this week-long series.
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<p> DANIELLE STEEL'S KALEIDOSCOPE; DANIELLE STEEL'S FINE THINGS
(NBC, Oct. 15, 16). NBC's alternative to post-season baseball:
a double dose of glossy trash.
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<p> BOOKS
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<p> SPY SINKER by Len Deighton (HarperCollins; $21.95). The
master plotter winds up his six-volume espionage saga about
British agent Bernard Samson and his spying wife Fiona, whose
defection to East Germany is finally explained.
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<p> PLEDGING ALLEGIANCE by Sidney Blumenthal (HarperCollins;
$22.95); ROAD SHOW by Roger Simon (Farrar, Straus & Giroux;
$19.95); SEE HOW THEY RUN by Paul Taylor (Knopf; $22.95). Three
observers of the '88 presidential campaign agree that
Republicans win the big ones because they manipulate voters'
emotions and juggle images better than Democrats.
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<p> MOVIES
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<p> AVALON. If gemutlichkeit were a Yiddish word, it would
describe the tone that writer-director Barry Levinson aims for
in this bustling memoir of his immigrant grandparents in
Baltimore. But the family portrait is too soft-focus, and the
residue is schmaltz.
</p>
<p> THE KRAYS. In the 1950s and '60s, these Cockney twins ruled
the London underworld with silken sadism. Peter Medak's brisk
docudrama understands the mom-obsessed brutality of the Krays.
The sun set on the British Empire, and the vermin came out to
play.
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<p> ETCETERA
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<p> COMING OUT OF THEIR SHELLS. There is more to the Teenage
Mutant Ninja Turtles than movies, TV, comics, toys, candy and
juice drinks. Now they have their own concert tour, destined
for 40 cities through 1991 (this week: Milwaukee, Oct. 10-14;
next stop: Detroit, Oct. 17-21). The 90-min.
audience-participation show features many live-action
characters familiar to turtle fans, including the metal-cloaked
villain Shredder. With humor aimed at parents as well, this
could be a perfect first concert for kids. Ready for
pre-schoolers dancing in the aisles?
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<p> WOUNDED KNEE: LEST WE FORGET, Buffalo Bill Historical
Center, Cody, Wyo. One hundred years after the army massacred
more than 145 Sioux at Wounded Knee, S. Dak., an exhibit of
photo murals, weaponry and Ghost Dance garments illuminates the
tribe's life and religion in the late 19th century and the
reasons behind the killings. Through Nov. 30.
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<p> STIRRING UP THE BORSCHT
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<p> JACKIE MASON: BRAND NEW. Well, not really. The Brillo-haired
rabbi turned comic has been doing the same basic Borscht Belt
act for decades, but he seems to have a tireless capacity for
self-resuscitation. A year after a sitcom flop on ABC, a much
publicized racial slight of New York City Mayor David Dinkins,
and an embarrassing paternity suit, Mason is on the comeback
trail, windmilling in three directions. His latest book, How
to Talk Jewish, is to be published in January. His weekly talk
show debuts on cable in December with a novel solution to the
perennial problem of finding good guests: there won't be any,
just Mason schmoozing for half an hour. And this week Mason
returns to Broadway with an all-new monologue that is bound to
revisit such accustomed topics as sex, politics and Mason's all
but patented specialty, the undeclared cultural clash between
Christians and Jews. All in all, Mason seems to be enacting a
phrase from the subtitle of his book: How to Get Everything You
Ever Wanted Through Pure Chutzpah.
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<p>By TIME's Reviewers. Compiled by Andrea Sachs.
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